Danny dissolves, but remnants soak New England

Danny lost his tropical characteristics this morning and the National Hurricane Center ended advisories on the ex-tropical storm. But the remnants were being absorbed into a frontal system and forecasters said parts of the Northeast would get socked with as much as 4 inches of rain today.

The system was expected to track over or near Cape Cod tonight and skirt eastern Maine on Sunday morning. Wind gusts of 40 mph or more may down some trees and power lines, forecasters said.

From there, the storm will blow through Nova Scotia, but not with the same punch we saw last weekend with the weakening Hurricane Bill.

Overall, the tropics seem to be quieting down. The strong tropical wave that the Hurricane Center had given a 50-50 chance of becoming Tropical Storm Erika lost much of its convection Friday night as it moved west. Hurricane forecasters now give it less than a 30 percent chance to develop.

With the front moving up the U.S. East Coast, Palm Beach and the rest of South Florida will see southwesterly winds this weekend. That means storms that flare up in the interior will be pulled northeast and have a good chance of making it all the way to the coast.

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